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1.
Plant Cell Environ ; 43(4): 880-902, 2020 04.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31733168

RESUMO

A challenge to improve an integrative phenotype, like yield, is the interaction between the broad range of possible molecular and physiological traits that contribute to yield and the multitude of potential environmental conditions in which they are expressed. This study collected data on 31 phenotypic traits, 83 annotated metabolites, and nearly 22,000 transcripts from a set of 57 diverse, commercially relevant maize hybrids across three years in central U.S. Corn Belt environments. Although variability in characteristics created a complex picture of how traits interact produce yield, phenotypic traits and gene expression were more consistent across environments, while metabolite levels showed low repeatability. Phenology traits, such as green leaf number and grain moisture and whole plant nitrogen content showed the most consistent correlation with yield. A machine learning predictive analysis of phenotypic traits revealed that ear traits, phenology, and root traits were most important to predicting yield. Analysis suggested little correlation between biomass traits and yield, suggesting there is more of a sink limitation to yield under the conditions studied here. This work suggests that continued improvement of maize yields requires a strong understanding of baseline variation of plant characteristics across commercially-relevant germplasm to drive strategies for consistently improving yield.


Assuntos
Zea mays/genética , Biomassa , Produção Agrícola , Meio Ambiente , Regulação da Expressão Gênica de Plantas/genética , Estudos de Associação Genética , Fenótipo , Reguladores de Crescimento de Plantas/metabolismo , Raízes de Plantas/anatomia & histologia , Raízes de Plantas/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Característica Quantitativa Herdável , Zea mays/anatomia & histologia , Zea mays/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Zea mays/metabolismo
2.
Plant Physiol ; 160(2): 1130-44, 2012 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22904164

RESUMO

Semidwarfism has been used extensively in row crops and horticulture to promote yield, reduce lodging, and improve harvest index, and it might have similar benefits for trees for short-rotation forestry or energy plantations, reclamation, phytoremediation, or other applications. We studied the effects of the dominant semidwarfism transgenes GA Insensitive (GAI) and Repressor of GAI-Like, which affect gibberellin (GA) action, and the GA catabolic gene, GA 2-oxidase, in nursery beds and in 2-year-old high-density stands of hybrid poplar (Populus tremula × Populus alba). Twenty-nine traits were analyzed, including measures of growth, morphology, and physiology. Endogenous GA levels were modified in most transgenic events; GA(20) and GA(8), in particular, had strong inverse associations with tree height. Nearly all measured traits varied significantly among genotypes, and several traits interacted with planting density, including aboveground biomass, root-shoot ratio, root fraction, branch angle, and crown depth. Semidwarfism promoted biomass allocation to roots over shoots and substantially increased rooting efficiency with most genes tested. The increased root proportion and increased leaf chlorophyll levels were associated with changes in leaf carbon isotope discrimination, indicating altered water use efficiency. Semidwarf trees had dramatically reduced growth when in direct competition with wild-type trees, supporting the hypothesis that semidwarfism genes could be effective tools to mitigate the spread of exotic, hybrid, and transgenic plants in wild and feral populations.


Assuntos
Giberelinas/metabolismo , Raízes de Plantas/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Populus/genética , Transgenes , Agrobacterium tumefaciens/genética , Agrobacterium tumefaciens/metabolismo , Isótopos de Carbono/análise , Isótopos de Carbono/metabolismo , Quimera/genética , Quimera/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Quimera/metabolismo , Clorofila/genética , Clorofila/metabolismo , Conservação dos Recursos Naturais/métodos , Agricultura Florestal/métodos , Regulação da Expressão Gênica de Plantas , Genes de Plantas , Genótipo , Giberelinas/genética , Raízes de Plantas/genética , Raízes de Plantas/metabolismo , Brotos de Planta/genética , Brotos de Planta/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Brotos de Planta/metabolismo , Plantas Geneticamente Modificadas/genética , Plantas Geneticamente Modificadas/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Plantas Geneticamente Modificadas/metabolismo , Populus/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Populus/metabolismo , Transformação Genética
3.
New Phytol ; 176(1): 184-196, 2007.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17803649

RESUMO

Despite the ubiquitous presence of ericoid mycorrhizal (ERM) fungi in cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon), no prior studies have examined the effect of ERM colonization on NO(3)(-) influx kinetics. Here, (15)NO(3)(-) influx was measured in nonmycorrhizal and mycorrhizal cranberry in hydroponics. Mycorrhizal cranberry were inoculated with the ERM fungus Rhizoscyphus (syn. Hymenoscyphus) ericae. (15)NO(3)(-) influx by R. ericae in solution culture was also measured. Rhizoscyphus ericae NO(3)(-) influx kinetics were linear when mycelium was exposed for 24 h to 3.8 mm NH(4)(+), and saturable when pretreated with 3.8 mm NO(3)(-), 50 microm NO(3)(-), or 50 microm NH(4)(+). Both low-N pretreatments induced greater NO(3)(-) influx than either of the high-N pretreatments. Nonmycorrhizal cranberry exhibited linear NO(3)(-) influx kinetics. By contrast, mycorrhizal cranberry had saturable NO(3)(-) influx kinetics, with c. eightfold greater NO(3)(-) influx than nonmycorrhizal cranberry at NO(3)(-) concentrations from 20 microm to 2 mm. There was no influence of pretreatments on cranberry NO(3)(-) influx kinetics, regardless of mycorrhizal status. Inoculation with R. ericae increased the capacity of cranberry to utilize NO(3)(-)-N. This finding is significant both for understanding the potential nutrient niche breadth of cranberry and for management of cultivated cranberry when irrigation water sources contain nitrate.


Assuntos
Ascomicetos/fisiologia , Micorrizas/fisiologia , Nitratos/metabolismo , Vaccinium macrocarpon/microbiologia , Ascomicetos/metabolismo , Transporte Biológico , Cinética , Micorrizas/metabolismo , Nitrogênio/metabolismo , Vaccinium macrocarpon/metabolismo
4.
Tree Physiol ; 26(12): 1607-11, 2006 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17169900

RESUMO

We examined the effects of fertilization and gypsy moth defoliation on condensed tannin concentration (%CT) of hybrid poplar (Populus x canadensis cv 'Eugeneii') fine roots in the summers of 1997 and 1998. This factorial experiment included two defoliation treatments (defoliated and a foliated control) and fertilization treatments (100 kg nitrogen (N) ha(-1) and an unfertilized control). Gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar L.) populations were experimentally increased to obtain defoliation in the summers of 1996, 1997 and 1998; fertilization subplots were supplemented with NH4NO3 (100 kg N ha(-1)) in the spring of each year. Despite the severity of defoliation, the effects were small, and significant on only two sampling dates: in May 1997, when fine root %CT was 23% lower in the defoliated trees, and in November 1997, when trees in the defoliated unfertilized plots had 35% higher root %CT than trees in all other plots. Defoliation effects on root %CT did not follow the same seasonal pattern as defoliation effects on root starch content, N uptake capacity or leaf %CT. Regulation of root condensed tannin concentration appeared to be partially uncoupled from these traits. The small transient effects on root defense reflect the resilience of this early successional tree to severe early season defoliation.


Assuntos
Mariposas/fisiologia , Nitrogênio/metabolismo , Raízes de Plantas/metabolismo , Populus/metabolismo , Proantocianidinas/metabolismo , Animais , Fertilizantes , Interações Hospedeiro-Parasita/fisiologia , Folhas de Planta/parasitologia , Populus/parasitologia
5.
Tree Physiol ; 24(9): 1063-8, 2004 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15234904

RESUMO

We examined the relationship between trunk diameter and diameter relative growth rate (RGR) and fine root condensed tannin concentration in 12 genotypes of eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides Bartr. ex Marsh.) planted in three locations across the north central United States. Across genotypes, trunk diameter, diameter RGR and root condensed tannin concentration were negatively correlated at one location (Wisconsin), but showed no significant correlation at the other locations (Iowa and Michigan). The factors responsible for this difference among sites remain unidentified, but may be related to soil fertility.


Assuntos
Raízes de Plantas/química , Populus/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Proantocianidinas/análise , Árvores/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Nitrogênio/metabolismo , Caules de Planta/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Populus/química , Solo , Árvores/química
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Tree Physiol ; 22(10): 741-6, 2002 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12091156

RESUMO

Late-summer starch accumulation in fine roots of poplars (Populus x canadensis Moench.) defoliated by gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar L.) lagged behind that in fine roots of undefoliated trees. If starch concentration declines with age, defoliation-induced changes in root system age structure could be partly responsible for this difference. To test this hypothesis, we measured fine-root starch and soluble sugar concentrations in roots of known age from trees in defoliated and undefoliated plots. There was a significant interaction between the effects of defoliation and root type (white, brown, or dead) on fine root soluble sugar concentration because of the high concentration of soluble sugars in white roots from trees in undefoliated plots. Both root starch and soluble sugar concentrations were variable among individuals of each age class. The population frequency distributions for starch and soluble sugar concentrations were both right-skewed, and fit by exponential functions. These data are most consistent with direct defoliation effects on a labile and dynamic pool of carbohydrates in poplar fine roots, rather than indirect defoliation effects on root system age structure.


Assuntos
Carboidratos/análise , Raízes de Plantas/química , Populus/química , Árvores/química , Frutose/análise , Glucose/análise , Folhas de Planta/fisiologia , Raízes de Plantas/fisiologia , Populus/fisiologia , Amido/análise , Sacarose/análise , Árvores/fisiologia
7.
Oecologia ; 129(1): 65-74, 2001 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28547069

RESUMO

Large-scale outbreaks of defoliating insects are common in temperate forests. The effects of defoliation on tree physiology are expected to cascade through the entire forest ecosystem, altering carbon, nitrogen, and water fluxes, and subsequently affecting nitrogen cycling and plant-herbivore interactions. If these post-defoliation changes are largely driven by N deficiency, tree root system responses to defoliation should be central to regulating the long-term effects of defoliation; N fertilization should reverse the effects. We examined these phenomena in a 3-year large-scale replicated manipulative field experiment in a hybrid poplar plantation, where we regulated defoliation by gypsy moths as well as nitrogen availability. To our knowledge, this is the first manipulative field experiment at this scale to examine the effects of severe insect defoliation on whole-tree physiology. Defoliation decreased tree growth and increased the rate of top dieback in the stand. Defoliation led to transient declines in carbon allocation to starch in fine roots, trunk, and twigs in the year of heaviest defoliation. Root production and root mortality were unaffected by the heaviest defoliation, but nitrate and ammonium uptake were strongly depressed. N fertilization increased tree growth, but did not alter defoliation effects on starch accumulation or top dieback. Defoliation and fertilization treatments did not interact. In this system, defoliation effects on tree recovery of leaf nitrogen lost to herbivory were primarily driven by effects on nitrogen uptake, rather than effects on root production or mortality.

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